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Offshoring software development activities to a remote site in another country continues to be one of the key strategies to save development cost. However, the assumed economic benefits of offshoring are often questionable, due to a large number of hidden costs and too simple cost calculations. This study is a continuation of our work on calculating the true hourly cost that includes the extra direct...
In the off grid areas of underdeveloped countries households use oil based lamps to carry out their day to day activities in the post dusk period. As a developing country, around 40% people in Bangladesh do not have access to electricity and mainly rely on oil based lamps after dusk. The luminous output of theses lamps is extremely small and causes continuous strain in the eyes which ultimately produces...
Based on the situation that the separation rate of enterprises becomes higher and higher currently, a four-stage strategy for the cost control of resignation is proposed, which includes the resignation cost control in the stages of recruiting, training, using and leaving of an employee. Countermeasures of corresponding stage are concluded by analyses of the formation of resignation cost, the existing...
When claims happen in the process of construction, in order to determine an amount compensated to the contractor, normally the owner and the contractor have to negotiate with each other or even refer to mediation and arbitration, which is a bargaining process as a whole. This paper interprets the discount factor in this process as a kind of hidden cost and sets out its three influencing factors. Then...
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